An environmental group says a Court of Appeal decision upholding a ruling preventing the mining of millions of tonnes of ironsands off the coast of Taranaki is a victory for the ocean.
Communities residing near coal-fired thermal power plants in Korba are two times more likely to suffer from respiratory diseases amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
The BLM is considering industry-driven requests to lease tens of thousands acres for oil and gas development near Arches and Canyonlands national parks.
Can an eclectic mix of hundreds of students brought together to work against the clock come up with technological solutions to the world's environmental problems?
'Economic imperatives cannot be placed above the health and safety of our people,' says Na-cho Nyak Dun chief, but territory deems mining an essential service.
Glaciologists in the US have developed a "slip law" to account for the motion of ice that rests on the soft, deformable ground underneath unusually fast-moving parts of ice sheets.
In the remote corners of Sumatra and Papua in Indonesia, and in other isolated communities across Asia and the world, access to energy for all remains a huge development challenge. This, despite impressive economic growth over the last few decades.
The coronavirus pandemic has delayed sessions in at least half of state legislatures, threatening solar booms, grid overhauls and 100% clean energy plans.
Former EPA administrator and NRDC president Gina McCarthy on why Trump’s rollback of emissions regulations is especially dangerous during the pandemic.
Coronavirus, like climate change, is partly a problem of our economic structure. Although both appear to be "environmental" or "natural" problems, they are socially driven.
Thousands of British homes will be paid to use electricity during the day for the first time, as wind and solar projects produce a surge in clean energy during the coronavirus lockdown.
A state agency is requiring homes on cliffs to be built farther away from the water because of sea-level rise. That's igniting legal challenges from property owners, who say they're on the front line of aggressive adaptation policies.
Pushed out of their village by a drought and lack of food, a group of Nepalis are fighting to amplify the voices of those forced to relocate by the planet’s warming.
Gone are the days of the Marlboro Man and the glossy ads that make smoking Virginia Slims seem cool. Now the Surgeon General's warning could make a migration to fuel pumps, listing the level of emissions you'll contribute to the atmosphere with your purchase and the number of lives you could endanger.
Though scientists expect carbon emissions to fall by 5% in 2020, the coronavirus pandemic is having very little impact on climate change, according to the World Meteorological Organization.
Though scientists expect carbon emissions to fall by 5% in 2020, the coronavirus pandemic is having very little impact on climate change, according to the World Meteorological Organization.
*Harvard historian Naomi Oreskes believes the coronavirus may be a 'dress rehearsal' for the climate catastrophe looming on the horizon – and suggests why people want to deny both threats**
The president’s failure to heed the warnings about coronavirus and act quickly has set in train a domino effect that now imperils large swathes of the US
PITTSBURGH—Kids who have asthma and live near industrial polluters may face higher risk from novel coronavirus and its resulting disease COVID-19 in the coming months.
Small-scale clean energy and low carbon technologies—such as solar panels, smart appliances and electric bicycles—are more likely to push society toward meeting climate goals than large-scale technologies, according to a new study from a team of international researchers.
A reasonable alternative is to leave this dangerous radioactive nuclear waste at the nuclear plants that produced it in dry cask storage rather than multiply the risk by transporting thousands of containers.
Editorial: Lowered auto emissions standards threaten Americans' health - and the planet's